DeadFencer

Wayne compares someone to a dolphin, meaning dolphins, or some rough equivalent, exist on Scadrial. The implications are staggering.

An artifact title, defined by TV Tropes: "A series title that made perfect sense when it began, but after a number of changes to the premise, no longer makes sense to people who don't go back to the beginning." Does this apply to the Mistborn series, since there aren't any more mistborn?

I think iBooks has it up

This novella was also mentioned in the ending Amazon accidentally uploaded as the preview of bands of mourning. (I myself didn't read that ending, but did read the bit about a new novella coming out). I just find it funny Amazon managed to reveal this book's existence early not once, but twice.

I think the real issue here is that a library managed to get ahold of a book early. Where is this library? And can I move to it?

Keep in mind that northern scadrialians don't know about radio. If they encountered a radio, it would is it appear to them as an object that can talk. It would make sense to assume other objects can make noise, as they aren't familiar with them.

Well presumably you can burn people by touching them, which would be useful

Scadrial has no moons. Brandon Sanderson was like "what if we just. Don't put in a moon. Will the readers notice." And Peter was probably like "Brandon we need a moon" and Brandon was like "NO MOON"

Yeah no that's not right. The Terris, where feruchemical ability comes from, aren't noble. Even allomancy, which comes from nobles, isn't really linked to nobles anymore because of the dilution of blood. Look at how many allomamcers there were when Preservation started snapping people at the end of the final empire, and that was when nobles couldn't marry non-nobles.

Ferring? More like red herring. I'm so sorry.

Going back to the original topic, I interpreted it as Miles healing so quickly that his pain nerves either didn't fire or were stopped from firing.

So while holding the power of the well of Ascension, Rashek changed the nobles to be taller in the balance. But didn't Rashek's allies come from after the well, when he was taking over the world? Those were the ones who received the Lerasium beads after all. Alendi may have had some allies before he died, but if some of those didn't support Rashek they would appear as nobles but be skaa, especially early on when the balance was more apparent.

So basically the solution to allomancy is more allomancy

Do we have a WoB on needing intent to spike?

He wouldn't have to remove the magic system, just make it impossible to use. We know shards can change parts of their magic systems, since Preservation did the cadmium/ bendalloy atium/malatium swap, and Sazed changed how snapping works. Couldn't he just make only atium work with Hemalurgy, then hide all the atium, like I said earlier?

SoS spoilers:

So we know Sazed didn't want people to know about and use Hemalurgy, since he excluded it from the words of founding. Why, then, did he keep it? Why not just remove that magic system all together? If he had to leave it in for balance or something, he could have changed the way it worked to make it impossible to use. Make it so only atium can be used for hemalurgic spikes, then put all the atium deep underground on another planet. He could give the koloss, kandra, and Marsh atium spikes of he wanted to keep them around. I don't get it.

If a bullet were shot through a metalborn and into someone else, would it become a hemalurgic spike? If so, the number of accidental spikings would probably increase, since bullets going through people, though rare, is more common than swords going through and breaking off.

The only reason registration acts are controversial in real life is because they target normal people for no reason other than prejudice. Metalborn actually have powers that make them dangerous. Registration for them would be like gun licenses- protecting others from a genuine threat.

Here's a theory: maybe the alloy-era nobles aren't actually the old nobles. Like was said, there's no reason for the skaa to keep following them after the Catacendre. Obviously those in the old crew could become nobles, but there's no house hammondar. Maybe they reduced the old nobles to normal status, then took their old names to keep some of the old world in the new. We know noble houses have seats in the Senate. Maybe those seats were given to those new nobles who took the names of the old.

Duralumin burns itself though, so that could be detected.

Is the talking hammer supposed to be a nod to Nightblood? More importantly... are there other tools like it?

I had that concern too! Thanks for clarifying.

Okay this is out of absolutely nowhere, but what if the metal in the clips was used in making Bleeder's weird spike? Like it was an alloy of a godmetal and the money. That would be humorous.

Or, (and this is just baseless conjecture) he could have started going down a lord ruler path. We know he wrote that book on Hemalurgy, so he would have been able to get ahold of an feruchemical atium spike and some atium (maybe from Marsh?) However, he soon realized what he was doing, and removed the spike.